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these were the arguments made against al gore in 2000 by george w. bush. and george bush said our military was overextended and spread too thin. the neocons have hijacked the party and spend a tremendous amount of tax dollars overseas. there is space on the president's left here to take a position that we should have a more rapid withdrawal of afghanistan than what the president is proposing. >> i'm going to have to leave it there, john. thank you john soltz and david corn. we'll be watching for the "it." >>> up next, answering the call in the midst of tragedy. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's four course seafood feast choose your soup salad entrée plus dessert! all just $14.99. come into red lobster and sea food differently. visit redlobster.com now for an exclusive $10 coupon. good through august 5th for an exclusive $10 coupon. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback at gas stations
these were the arguments made against al gore in 2000 by george w. bush. and george bush said our military was overextended and spread too thin. the neocons have hijacked the party and spend a tremendous amount of tax dollars overseas. there is space on the president's left here to take a position that we should have a more rapid withdrawal of afghanistan than what the president is proposing. >> i'm going to have to leave it there, john. thank you john soltz and david corn. we'll be...
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that reminds me of early term george w. bush. it was about how much america wanted it. i mean, the realists in romney's camp, the people who are chastened by the bush administration, they have to be reeling from that. >> if you want to look to the guy whose words and actions match up and have been more consistent, that's obama. it's not romney. it's obama who in 2007 said he was going to have an all-out effort to kill osama bin laden with or without pakistan. it was obama who said he was going to increase troop levels in pakistan. it was obama who said he was going to end the iraq war. when you look at romney then, sometimes now, sometimes last tuesday, sometimes next wednesday. it's a little bit different. you've got an actually more hawkish romney on iran than you do this time around. all of a sudden now russia is the biggest foe until this new speech at the vfw in which iran poses the bigger danger. it's more difficult to get a sense of where that resolve actually plays out, and i tell up, ezra, i wanted to walk out on his speech so badly. romney denied me the facts,
that reminds me of early term george w. bush. it was about how much america wanted it. i mean, the realists in romney's camp, the people who are chastened by the bush administration, they have to be reeling from that. >> if you want to look to the guy whose words and actions match up and have been more consistent, that's obama. it's not romney. it's obama who in 2007 said he was going to have an all-out effort to kill osama bin laden with or without pakistan. it was obama who said he was...
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at the same time vice president cheney and george w. bush are announcing plans to not be there at mr. romney's convention, the democrats today announced a keynote, prime time high-profile speaking spot for their convention for the democrat's last president, for bill clinton. do you see any advantage in one of those two very different approaches to these parties' recent governing past and the republicans pretending they don't have a recent governing past and the democrats so boldly embracing clinton? >> it's a striking contrast, and bill clinton is a big asset for democrats, in part, rachel, because mitt romney is going out on the stump and deriding barack obama by making a contrast to bill clinton. saying under bill clinton, we followed one set of policies and things worked out a lot better than under obama. first of all, the policies weren't all that different, but more importantly, he's going to be the keynote at the convention and set the tone and make the economic argument that he can better than almost anybody else in american poli
at the same time vice president cheney and george w. bush are announcing plans to not be there at mr. romney's convention, the democrats today announced a keynote, prime time high-profile speaking spot for their convention for the democrat's last president, for bill clinton. do you see any advantage in one of those two very different approaches to these parties' recent governing past and the republicans pretending they don't have a recent governing past and the democrats so boldly embracing...
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w. thanks for being with us. see you again monday at 7:00 eastern. have a great weekend. >>> welcome to "politicsnation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, the man with the golden gaffe. mitt romney spent the last 24 hours in london trying to repair the damage done to his campaign after suggesting the british weren't ready for the olympics. >> after being here a couple of days it looks like london is ready. >> these games, great weather. enthusiasm on the part of the people here in london. i think you're going to see terrific games. >> i'm delighted with the prospects of a highly successful olympic games. >> romney is delighted by the games. he thinks london is ready. really he does. but the british press isn't buying pit "the daily mail" said quote, romney completes humiliating u-turn in new charm offensive after olympic gaffe. and bbc are wondering if the woes will hurt him at home. and the sun says merely mitt the twit. and on british tv, the coverage, well it's just been brutal. >> to
w. thanks for being with us. see you again monday at 7:00 eastern. have a great weekend. >>> welcome to "politicsnation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, the man with the golden gaffe. mitt romney spent the last 24 hours in london trying to repair the damage done to his campaign after suggesting the british weren't ready for the olympics. >> after being here a couple of days it looks like london is ready. >> these games, great weather. enthusiasm on the part of...
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in the words of george w. bush, you don't forget poland. but how do you go on your big presidential trip as a presidential candidate and not going to afghanistan? how do you not go to where we're still at war? in an interview today with brian williams, he turned down the opportunity to criticize the president on foreign policy, being on foreign soil and what not. but if you compare mitt romney's foreign policy and obama's foreign policy, you see mitt is very good at used the tough-sounding words but is less good at differentiating himself from the president. joining us now is spencer ackman, national security writer, a friend of mine, and somebody who has dug deep into romney's foreign policy. good to see you. you wrote a great piece today, and the kite title was "the five things we learned about how mitt romney would run the world." number one is he seems to run the world when it comes to afghanistan, egypt, and iran a lot like obama is running the world. >> a lot like if romney hired obama's aides but they had nothing but bad things to sa
in the words of george w. bush, you don't forget poland. but how do you go on your big presidential trip as a presidential candidate and not going to afghanistan? how do you not go to where we're still at war? in an interview today with brian williams, he turned down the opportunity to criticize the president on foreign policy, being on foreign soil and what not. but if you compare mitt romney's foreign policy and obama's foreign policy, you see mitt is very good at used the tough-sounding...
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you certainly because of his position on gay rights, were not a fan of george w. bush. there was the war, two wars, several other issues, to say the least, but you're watching, you write in your book you're watching the state of the union address, you lived in the states on and off, you've had a home in atlanta, you're watching the 2003 state of the union address. tell me about your reactions to watching george w. bush announcing the billions of dollars that he was going to ask for to be appropriated for global aids. >> i remember jumping up and punching the air but also, at the same time, feeling that i swallowed a boiled egg. i couldn't believe it. it was just a wonderful, again, a pivotal turning point in the treatment of aids people throughout the world. and when i got my kennedy center honor and spent some time with him and rumsfeld and condoleezza rice and colin powell backstage at the interval of the concert, we had a wonderful ten minutes of conversation. he was very informed about aids. i wasn't on the same political, you know, page as him. i didn't agree with
you certainly because of his position on gay rights, were not a fan of george w. bush. there was the war, two wars, several other issues, to say the least, but you're watching, you write in your book you're watching the state of the union address, you lived in the states on and off, you've had a home in atlanta, you're watching the 2003 state of the union address. tell me about your reactions to watching george w. bush announcing the billions of dollars that he was going to ask for to be...
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the second thing is, democrats in 2000 decided after al gore lost to george w. bush, they decided they lost because blue collar white voters in places like west virginia, you know, throughout, made inroads in kentucky, tennessee, arkansas, missouri, those voters were turning on the democratic party because of guns and what you've seen over the last decade has been in polling, there has been a real dramatic rise in terms of how important blue collar white voters think the issue of gun ownership is to them. the democrats have to make a choice -- >> i understand the demographics on that but howard, i'm going to stop calling him your boss. >> he is my boss. >> you're a pro in your own right. he said when was the last time you saw a deer in a flack jacket. these are high capacity magazines we can't even get banned after gabby giffords was shot. we know james holmes had a se semiautomatic weapon that went out on him in the middle of the shooting. if it had been working, many more people would have been killed and injured. the fact the internet is an unregulated gray a
the second thing is, democrats in 2000 decided after al gore lost to george w. bush, they decided they lost because blue collar white voters in places like west virginia, you know, throughout, made inroads in kentucky, tennessee, arkansas, missouri, those voters were turning on the democratic party because of guns and what you've seen over the last decade has been in polling, there has been a real dramatic rise in terms of how important blue collar white voters think the issue of gun ownership...
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bush institute jim glassman, george w. bush institute out with its first book "the 4% solution" unleashing the economic growth america needs. we'll talk about that in one minute you brought a sign with you dave walker. www.10 million a minute.com. it's not the debt clock. if you add the total liabilities and unfunded promises for social security when we roll the tour, 70, 410, 400, 000, 000. the u.s. in the hole $70 trillion. the debt clock doesn't take it all in, the unfunded social security mandate, unfunded medicare mandate. >> it doesn't take it unfunded pensions, retiree health care for civilians and military, the things that governor scott walker had to deal with. the real problem at the federal, state and local level not what's on the ballot sheet, it's what's off the balance sheet. we have huge promises that need to be restructured and outdated tax system -- >> we've been talking about this for years. in 2004 after i wrote a book in 2004, actually criticizing george w. bush and democrats for not doing what they nee
bush institute jim glassman, george w. bush institute out with its first book "the 4% solution" unleashing the economic growth america needs. we'll talk about that in one minute you brought a sign with you dave walker. www.10 million a minute.com. it's not the debt clock. if you add the total liabilities and unfunded promises for social security when we roll the tour, 70, 410, 400, 000, 000. the u.s. in the hole $70 trillion. the debt clock doesn't take it all in, the unfunded social...
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george w. bush, a guy who is very likable one-on-one just doesn't like politics. and mitt romney has been showing that he doesn't have the touch. he's picked great britain, israel and poland, three countries that have three different completely different reasons to not like barack obama and to embrace mitt romney and he seemed to bungle those three trips. >> yeah, it's true, joe. i think your point is very well taken. people like politicians who seem to like what they're doing, who are having a good time, who can drag them along and say, come on, this is going to be fun, we're going to turn the country around. i think both candidates do lack that. they almost seem strained when they're out campaigning, like they're being forced to take their medicine. that's a very, very important point. second, this is august and you say will they remember these one incident, two incidents from this trip? it begins to pile up. after a while they just say, god, what's going on here? and the candidate almost becomes a caricature and i think mitt romney is not quite there yet but fa
george w. bush, a guy who is very likable one-on-one just doesn't like politics. and mitt romney has been showing that he doesn't have the touch. he's picked great britain, israel and poland, three countries that have three different completely different reasons to not like barack obama and to embrace mitt romney and he seemed to bungle those three trips. >> yeah, it's true, joe. i think your point is very well taken. people like politicians who seem to like what they're doing, who are...
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write a column that praises george w. bush. very narrowly and specifically. but, you know, the big international aids conference has been held in washington all week and it -- and the tone is much more positive and optimistic than in previous conferences about finally getting, you know, some day ending this epidemic. and one person who will have played a big part in that is george w. bush, who decided in 2003, under no pressure to do so, to spend billions and billions of dollars providing anti-retroviral drugs to africa, to victims in countries in africa that could not afford the sort of treatment when he started this program, it's called president's emergency plan for aids relief, only 50,000 people in -- on the continent of africa, epicenter of the aids epidemic, 50,000 were receiving these life saving drugs, and right now, the total is something like 8 million with 4 million people being directly provided drugs through this u.s. program that george wfrmts bush started. it is, i think, in my opinion, the best thing he did as president. it showed that the un
write a column that praises george w. bush. very narrowly and specifically. but, you know, the big international aids conference has been held in washington all week and it -- and the tone is much more positive and optimistic than in previous conferences about finally getting, you know, some day ending this epidemic. and one person who will have played a big part in that is george w. bush, who decided in 2003, under no pressure to do so, to spend billions and billions of dollars providing...
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w. they may be in the recycling bin. >> it shows one thing, which is that in the business world, people don't like to reveal all their secrets and there's tons of reporting about public companies but it's all a kind of song and dance to try to conceal the truth or at least put a different spin on it. i think that's the world romney is most used to operating in and it's still true to him. i think, you know, john's column in "new york" magazine this week about why are they stumbling on this, tax returns in particular, it's such an obvious thing. they had to see it coming. why are they not prepared with this story? what are they doing? i think it's because there's a mindset. there's a mindset that is a product of 20 years in business and it's hard to just change that, even when you have to. >> let's listen to what mitt romney said regarding the wall of obfuscation. >> what has come from the president's campaign has been a series of attacks on me for my private sector work, for which i'm ver
w. they may be in the recycling bin. >> it shows one thing, which is that in the business world, people don't like to reveal all their secrets and there's tons of reporting about public companies but it's all a kind of song and dance to try to conceal the truth or at least put a different spin on it. i think that's the world romney is most used to operating in and it's still true to him. i think, you know, john's column in "new york" magazine this week about why are they...
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." >>> so what do former president george w. bush and president barack obama have in common? well, they both won the same nine battleground states on the way to the white house. former president bush did it in 2004 and of course president obama in 2008. today, we're going to take a look at those nine battleground states. but let's start with a quick refresher. back in 2004, show you the maps of how bush beat kerry. here you go, as you can see. almost all red except on the coasts, near the great lakes. basically, if your state touched water, you voted for kerry, except if you touched southern warm water. here was the obama map. if you will, this, of course, took -- made a lot of those red states blue, went down farther, the mid-atlantic seaboard and showed that, yes, even the southern waters with was warm to the democratic party in the blue, if you will. so we're going to start with, what about those states that went obama and bush and show you what it looks like if the kerry states stay in the democratic column and go from there. let me take you to my road to 270 here. this i
." >>> so what do former president george w. bush and president barack obama have in common? well, they both won the same nine battleground states on the way to the white house. former president bush did it in 2004 and of course president obama in 2008. today, we're going to take a look at those nine battleground states. but let's start with a quick refresher. back in 2004, show you the maps of how bush beat kerry. here you go, as you can see. almost all red except on the coasts,...
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we have seen presidents in the past, george w. bush after 9/11. bill clinton after the oklahoma city bombing do that very effectively and president obama will try to do that again today as he did after gabby giffords was shot more than a year ago. >> i also remember president reagan doing that after the shuttle explosion. these things are indelibly etched into your mind. christina, both the president and mr. romney do have events tomorrow. neither will likely talk gun control any time soon. could or would either candidate bringing it up be possible down the road? >> nothing is impossible. it is unlikely. it is not a debate that these two guys want to have. you have mayor michael bloomberg calling on each of them to resurge on this issue. it is politically difficult for both parties to tackle this. it is something i wouldn't be surprised if congress takes up. there are advocates that have fierce opinions on both sides. even if the debate doesn't change and people feel very entrenched on either side, people want to talk about it. it gives people who
we have seen presidents in the past, george w. bush after 9/11. bill clinton after the oklahoma city bombing do that very effectively and president obama will try to do that again today as he did after gabby giffords was shot more than a year ago. >> i also remember president reagan doing that after the shuttle explosion. these things are indelibly etched into your mind. christina, both the president and mr. romney do have events tomorrow. neither will likely talk gun control any time...
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w. it's always unbecoming after every shooting that both sides will come out and decide that now is the perfect time to have the gun control debate. and i've got to say i agree with the governor, that mental health issue and that the united states doesn't do enough in this area on mental health and it's -- but again, this is a debate. i personally believe let's have this debate in a week, let's have this debate in two weeks. when you start seeing editorials on both sides de signed to -- deciding to weigh in when people are dying, it's just unfortunate. i do want to say, that the president -- i liked seeing the president do what presidents really do best and that is comfort in a time of need, whether it was ronald reagan during the "challenger" accident, whether bill clinton after oklahoma city, george w. bush standing on the pile of rubble after 9/11, only a president can do what barack obama did and that is talk to those affected by such unspeakable tragedy and bring at least a little b
w. it's always unbecoming after every shooting that both sides will come out and decide that now is the perfect time to have the gun control debate. and i've got to say i agree with the governor, that mental health issue and that the united states doesn't do enough in this area on mental health and it's -- but again, this is a debate. i personally believe let's have this debate in a week, let's have this debate in two weeks. when you start seeing editorials on both sides de signed to --...